[Narrator, archive and actors]
Since the start of the War, the Nazis had been experimenting with carbon monoxide to gas Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti and disabled people. They now established six extermination camps in Poland dedicated to killing people: Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdenek, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Gas chambers and crematoria were built. In January 1942, Heydrich organised the Wannsee Conference where 15 leading Nazis met to discuss plans for the deportation and extermination of all the remaining Jews in Europe. All 11 million of them.
[Narrator, archive and actors]
Since the start of the War, the Nazis had been experimenting with carbon monoxide to gas Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti and disabled people. They now established six extermination camps in Poland dedicated to killing people: Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdenek, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Gas chambers and crematoria were built. In January 1942, Heydrich organised the Wannsee Conference where 15 leading Nazis met to discuss plans for the deportation and extermination of all the remaining Jews in Europe. All 11 million of them.
A montage of the countries where the Holocaust happened.
Janine was 8 when she and her family were forced to live in Lvov Ghetto.
Steven describes what it was like when he was deported in a cattle truck from Holland aged 8.
Some courageous people still helped Jews to hide. Janine describes her experiences of being a hidden child aged 9.
